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Les Arts Florissants, William Christie - Bouzignac: Te Deum, Motets (1993)

Posted By: tirexiss

Date: 24 Mar 2017 07:03:55

Guillaume Bouzignac (1690?-1743?) was not attached to the French Royal Court. His music was not published by Ballard, who held a royal monopoly on musical publication. He MAY have been a choirboy in Narbonne, a master of the choirboys in Grenoble, a musical servant of Henri Montmorency, governor of Languedoc at the time of the wars against the Huguenots, and a person of musical importance in the city of Tours, where the manuscript of these motets was discovered in 1905. That covers almost everything that's known about the composer outside of the very specific information about his musical thought contained in his works.
The American musicologist James Anthony wrote in 1974: "There is a degree of individuality in his music altogether remarkable in a period of general conformity within a prescribed genre. Simply stated, there is no other music of the time that looks the same on the page or sounds the same as the motets of Bouzignac." Honestly, I'd go a little farther. It seems to me that Bouzignac took the musical vocabulary of the 17th Century - Schuetz, for instance - and composed an alternate future aesthetic all of his own, uninfluenced by his Italian and French contemporaries, which lay dormant until the end of the 20th Century. I don't mean that Bouzignac has suddenly become influential; far from it, he's hardly less obscure than he was 300 years ago. Rather, I think I could take several of his motets and palm them off on a contemporary audience as the work of a modern composer, one who was steeped in the aesthetics of Early Music but who chose to incorporate elements of the Protestant choirbook and the "Negro spiritual." The works described as "dialogue motets" in the program notes could just as easily be considered "call and response." The "lack of homogeneity" and the "text fragmentation" discussed in those program notes sound to me extremely prophetic of the directions taken by 20th C composers of choral music. In effect, I'm hearing Bouzignac as a composer so far outside his own era in style that by serendipity he speaks eloquently to our modern sensibilities.
Whether you buy my notions or not, this is an exciting and unique CD. William Christie, the most insightful of French Baroque advocates, has combined his own Les Arts Florissantes ensemble with the viola da gamba ensemble Orlando Gibbons and the choir Les Pages de la Chapelle for this recording, in which the choir is predominant but the soloists essential at expressive moments. The gamba pieces sound quite squarely in the tradition of gamba quintets dating back to the English gentry composers of the 17th C, but the choral music is wildly different from baroque genres - highly dramatic, pictorial, not at all symmetrical or repetitive. If you have any lurking prejudices to the effect that all baroque music sounds the same, Bouzignac will jostle your taste.
The performance? Of course there are no competitors with which to compare it, so we'll just have to assume that Bill Christie isn't pulling our legs, that the musical notation on the manuscript pages justifies the rambunctiously eccentric sounds his conducting elicits from his singers. Les Arts Florissants is easily the foremost ensemble in the field of French baroque music, and this recording is well up to their usual standards. What a fun CD!

AllMusic

Track List:

1. Motets: Ecce Festivitas Amoris - Les Pages De La Chapelle/Olivier Schneebeli/Anne Mopin/Armand Gavriilides/Paul-Alexandre Dubois
2. Motets: Ecce Homo - Les Pages De La Chapelle/Olivier Schneebeli/Paul Agnew
3. Motets: Unus Ex Vobis - Les Pages De La Chapelle/Olivier Schneebeli/Nathan Berg
4. Motets: In pace, In Idipsum - Armand Gavriilides/Paul Agnew/Nathan Berg/Stephan Van Dyck
5. Motets: Ha! Plange - Les Pages De La Chapelle/Olivier Schneebeli
6. Motets: Vulnerasti Cor Meum - Armand Gavriilides/Steve Dugardin/Paul Agnew/Paul-Alexandre Dubois
7. Motets: Alleluia, Venite Amici - Les Pages De La Chapelle/Olivier Schneebeli
8. Motets: Flos In Flores - Ens De Violes/Orlando Gibbons
9. Motets: O Mors, Ero Mors Tua - Les Pages De La Chapelle/Olivier Schneebeli
10. Motets: Clamant Clavi - Les Pages De La Chapelle/Olivier Schneebeli/Aymeric Dorange/Armand Gavriilides…
11. Motets: Ecce Aurora - Les Pages De La Chapelle/Olivier Schneebeli/Steve Dugardin/Paul Agnew/Christophe Davezac…
12. Motets: Dum Silentium - Les Pages De La Chapelle/Olivier Schneebeli/Aymeric Dorange
13. Motets: Jubilate Deo - Les Pages De La Chapelle/Olivier Schneebeli/Steve Dugardin
14. Motets: Salve, Jesu Piissime - Les Pages De La Chapelle/Olivier Schneebeli/Jeremie Poirier-Quinot
15. Motets: Ave Maria - Les Pages De La Chapelle/Olivier Schneebeli/Aymeric Dorange
16. Motets: Tota Pulchra Est - Aymeric Dorange/Arthur Le Mesre De Pas/Jeremie Poirier-Quintot/Christophe Davezac
17. Te Deum - Les Pages De La Chapelle/Olivier Schneebeli/Aymeric Dorange/Anne Mopin/Armand Gavriilides…

Performers:
Choeur: Les Pages de la Chapelle, Dir.Olivier Schneebeli
Christophe Davezac
Aymeric Dorange
Christophe Günst
Jean-Pascal Jacob
Arthur le Mesre de Pas
Jérémie Poirier-Quinot
Nils Ruinet
Baptiste van Opstal

Anne Mopin - Soprano
Armand Gavrilides - Sopraniste
Steve Dugardin, Michel Puissant, Didier Rebuffet - Alto
Paul Agnew, Richard Duguay, Stephan van Dyck - Tenor
François Bazola, Nathan Berg, Paul-Alexandre Dubois, Paul Willenbrock, Harry van der Kamp - Bass

Ensemble Instrumental: Ensemble de Violes Orlando Gibbons
Philippe Pierlot, Anne-Marie Lasla - Dessus de Viole
Kaori Uemura - Ténor de Viole
Sylvie Moquet, Jérôme Hantaï - Basse de Viole

Matthias Sprinz, Claudia Schäfer - Sacqueboute ténor
Richard Lister - Sacqueboute basse
Kenneth Weiss - Organ

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